There are books I’m reluctant to put down, and then there are books that I literally cannot put down and must read during dinner–this one was definitely the latter type! I laughed loudly, I cringed in embarassment, I wanted to beat some sense into Mia for being so stupid sometimes (but still completely understood why she thought and acted as she did). As always, I loved every minute spent in Mia’s head. She’s definitely a different girl than she was in book one, or even book nine, and it’s wonderfully realistic. Mia is herself, but I love how she’s grown as the series has progressed, too.

In Forever Princess, Mia’s life is as crazy and confused as ever. And she’s only got about three weeks to sort out all of this! Oh, and if that’s not enough for Mia to deal with at once, her father’s run for Genovia’s first Prime Minister isn’t going as well as she had hoped.

She’s also going to graduate high school, and she still has to figure out where she’s going to college next year. On top of all of that, Mia’s also about to turn eighteen, and Grandmere is planning her party–never a good idea. It’s even more complicated because, even though she’s been going out with JP for two years, Michael’s return makes her rethink their relationship and JP, and see everything in a new light. In fact, he doesn’t even tell her when he comes back to Manhattan, but of course it’s all over the news, because the project he went to Japan to pursue is a major success. He and Mia tried to stay friends, but it’s really just been infrequent emails, and they’re far from close. Anyway, she’s collecting quite a stack of rejections as Daphne Delacroix when Michael asks to read the project (still thinking it’s about Genovian olive growing), and Mia is less than thrilled with the idea of her ex-boyfriend reading her romance novel. A four hundred page project on Genovian olive growing. She hasn’t told anyone about it they think she’s been writing a senior project on Genovian olive growing. Why has it been awhile? Mia’s been too busy to write in her journal because she’s written a historical romance novel! She’s now trying to get it published under a pen name. In this tenth and final installment in the Princess Diaries series, it’s been awhile since we last heard from Mia, and her life is drastically different from what it was in most of the series.

Forever Princess by Meg Cabot